Pseudodesmus variegatus ( Attems, 1938 )

Nguyen, Anh D., Nguyen, Lien T. P. & Korsós, Zoltán, 2024, A review of the millipede genus Pseudodesmus Pocock, 1887 (Diplopoda, Platydesmida, Andrognathidae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of five new species and notes on its phylogeny, Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (4), pp. 1515-1541 : 1515-1541

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zse.100.132111

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B39508EB-6EB2-4CC0-88D8-B3E87BDCED02

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14052220

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1ED9EDFC-32C3-5A65-AA37-6D2298FFE324

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Zoosystematics and Evolution by Pensoft

scientific name

Pseudodesmus variegatus ( Attems, 1938 )
status

 

Pseudodesmus variegatus ( Attems, 1938) View in CoL

Sumatronium variegatum Attems, 1938: 308, figs 236–243. View in CoL

Type material.

1 male and 2 juveniles ( NHMW - MY 2287).

Historical diagnosis.

According to Attems (1938: p. 308), the species can be recognized by striking coloration of fairly irregular distribution of black and yellow-brown color; male with 53–56 body rings, length 32 mm, width 5.8 mm; collum scarcely wider than the head; other metazonites densely covered with tiny hairs dorsally on the tubercles and on the underside of paraterga, with 2 transverse rows of shiny tubercles; anterior row of 8–15 + 8–15 tubercles, extending to paraterga; posterior row of 5–7 + 5–7 tubercles present only on metaterga.

Record from Vietnam.

Lam Dong Province (Lang Bian).

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Platydesmida

Family

Andrognathidae

Genus

Pseudodesmus

Loc

Pseudodesmus variegatus ( Attems, 1938 )

Nguyen, Anh D., Nguyen, Lien T. P. & Korsós, Zoltán 2024
2024
Loc

Sumatronium variegatum

Attems C 1938: 308
1938